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  1. $1 Million Grant Furthering Efforts to Eliminate Food Crisis in Africa

    April 16, 2009 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- Ohio State University is partnering with Virginia Tech to ... strengthen food security in Africa with a three-year, $1 million initiative to improve productivity, ... Security Initiative grant to study methods to increase yields, reduce crop risks and boost economic ...

  2. $1 Million Study Tackles Role of Viruses in Safety of Fresh Produce

    scientists are leading an effort aimed at reducing the incidence of foodborne illness in fresh produce caused ... foodborne illness focuses on bacteria, such as Salmonella, E. coli, Listeria and Campylobacter. According to ... they relate to food safety, are not well understood," said Jianrong Li, the project's ...

  3. $320,000 Tractor Donated; Another on the Way

    January 19, 2012 Agricultural Systems Management program to benefit COLUMBUS, Ohio-- It's not ... Wellington, Ohio, plans to loan a second tractor to Ohio State, with delivery anticipated in April. "The ... in the fall, students will be able to use the tractors to practice collecting GPS and machine ...

  4. $5 Million Bioenergy, Bioproducts Project Offers Opportunities for Ohio Teachers

    selected to attend a workshop at Cornell to be trained on a suite of laboratory kits and workbooks and ... program at any site. Applicants who are not selected for participation in 2011 are eligible to be put on ... with training and toolkits to prepare students for careers in this growing field. "The idea is to ...

  5. $5 Million Third Frontier Grant to Advance Granule Technology

    agricultural industries.   The Andersons, Inc. will be leading an Ohio Bioproducts Innovation Center project to ... pesticides, or other biologically active ingredients, to specific areas. The result is a more effective and ... environmentally safer product, activating only when exposed to water. Ohio State University's Ohio ...

  6. $6M Announced for Reconstruction of Tornado-stricken Building on Ohio State's Wooster Campus

    allocated $6 million in emergency funds to assist with the reconstruction of a building at ... legislature.   The State Controlling Board is expected to approve the $6 million appropriation at its Sept. 10 ... crumbled to the ground during the storm. Total cost of that project is estimated at $14 million, with ...

  7. 'An Ohio State Story': Lab Idea Yields 60 Local Jobs, New Green Industry

    October 5, 2012 MANSFIELD, Ohio-- Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee liked what he saw ... at the Mansfield, Ohio, factory: a syrupy mixture made from crop and biodiesel-processing wastes ... being turned into polyurethane foam. But he was more fascinated by the story of how this factory came to ...

  8. 'Corn University' to Examine Possibility of 300 Bushel Corn

    session will be followed by a panel discussion to wrap up the day. The Conservation Tillage and Technology ... corn, Thomison said. "Looking at the long-term trendline, going all the way back to when hybrids ... Thomison said. That bodes well for the future, particularly if yields continue to increase at three or more ...

  9. 'Environmental Stewardship and You': OSU Professor, Author to Speak This Friday (1/28)

    people’s relationship to the land, including the role of politics, will speak on the subject this Friday ... State’s Columbus campus and in 121 Fisher Auditorium at the university’s Ohio Agricultural Research and ... Land offers “keen insights into the tenuous ties we have to the places we live and the pleasure of ...

  10. 'Food, Faith and a Sustainable Future': Talk This Wednesday (3/30) at OSU

    information, contact Ohio State’s Greg Hitzhusen at 614-292-7739 or  hitzhusen.3@osu.edu  or go to ... at 6:30 p.m. plus free tomato and lettuce plants for participating. The program is the first in the ...

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